Item Details

Urban Reform: How the Other Half Lives

Format

Video; Streaming Video; Online

Summary

Study how progressive reformers responded to the troubles of big cities through urban planning, new thinking about poverty, and the establishment of “settlement houses” and social work to aid the urban poor. Also learn about activism to address alcohol abuse and prostitution, as well as governmental actions to reform housing, urban sanitation, and public health..

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Study how progressive reformers responded to the troubles of big cities through urban planning, new thinking about poverty, and the establishment of “settlement houses” and social work to aid the urban poor. Also learn about activism to address alcohol abuse and prostitution, as well as governmental actions to reform housing, urban sanitation, and public health..